Jason Fagone

yeah I don't know what will solve it. maybe games and puzzles. people like those. the more important thing is for the public to understand that reporting is a public good, I think -- it clarifies the problem. i feel we in the media should be talking about what we do as a public good

exactly

In the UK we have long recognised this - hence the BBC licence fee. (I know opinions differ and, full disclosure, I do work for the publicly funded arm of the BBC!) but in my view it's money very well spent.

The truth is that reporting is a public good, like a bridge or a train. It's infrastructure that makes it possible to live a peaceable life in a democratic country. But not enough people will pay for it. Good people take it for granted, bad people want to blow it up. Ads aren't going to solve this.

The Diamondbacks pitcher was burning through Phillies batters invincibly, no one could touch him, so of course the manager took him out of the game

Close-up of PenBBS 494 demonstrator fountain pen holding Diamine Oxblood ink, on a copy of the 2022 Best American Short Stories.

Another work-tray fountain pen: a PenBBS 494 demonstrator, F steel nib ground to a 0.7mm stub italic. I tend to avoid the cheapest pens bc of shoddy QC, shaky hand-feel, & stolen valor (“borrowed” designs, etc.) Is this one ugly? Kind of. But it holds so much ink & the nib never fails.
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they are really flying these things, it's wild

My fav gotcha media question of that era was News people inviting anti war guests on to ask them who they thought was a greater threat to world peace, Bush or Saddam, as if that were a real question

great Outside feature piece about crazy bush pilots flying small planes they build from kits and landing on the forgotten runways of the West www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Can't do twitter anymore, full revulsion, grotesque in the extreme. It's a recruiting tool for Nazis and terrorists now

thanks Liza

Remarkable investigation of the murder of brilliant #Alcatraz leader #RichardOakes, who helped jumpstart discussions about #Indigenous rights and historic wrongs by @jfagone.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Our @sfchronicle.bsky.social story about the 1972 killing of Richard Oakes, the Mohawk activist gunned down at 30 by a man who thought Oakes was a "troublemaker" and "better off dead." An all-white California jury acquitted the shooter. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

I barely know McKenzie so I'm not caping for a friend or anything. The book is amazing.

Some alpha for anyone reading this -- pick up a copy of THE HANK SHOW when it's released. New nonfiction book by McKenzie Funk. I read the galley. Trust me

Twitter is unusable for me now, and Mastodon never clicked, so I'm trying this. Thanks @mcnees.bsky.social for the invite